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raj5000

@raj5000

Sparkler

Posted: 17 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: BARTSIMPSON
I thing this problem exist today

Where?? some details please. Are we addressing issues of casteism here or debating is the society /Govt fair to all castes? Am not sure in either case if this topic might hurt some sentiments here.

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lakshmi

@lakshmim_84

Inactive

Posted: 17 years ago

#12

Originally posted by: RonnieK
treated poorly?
they can enter college if they fail the entrance exam lol

😆😆😆... i read a news.. the IITs has the provsion to expel students(not sure if it is expelling or some other stringent action) if they continously perform poorly in tests, n is seems some dalit students were expelled this year, cos of their poor performance... now they r creating problems there, that they have been given poor marks bcos they were dalits...
these people gain entry to IITs n IIMs even if they perform badly in enterence exams.. n they expect the same treatment in marks too😆😆😆. completely degrading the status of IIMs n IITs.

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Edited by lakshmim_84 - 17 years ago

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corvette

@corvette

Dazzler

Posted: 17 years ago

#13

positive discrimination rarely works but always promotes resentment

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chal_phek_mat

@chal_phek_mat

Inactive

Posted: 17 years ago

#14

Does the problem still exist in India, heck yes, you have to visit rural area's in India and you will see it. Now we have moved on from the 1940's/1950 where people were totally segregated but there is still some seperation between the different caste's. If you sit in a A/C office in one of the metro's you are not going to see it. All you see then in the reverse discrimination. People in India are very good at finding loopholes, so the age-old mechanisms just find a newer way to discriminate

The Govt has responded with some "knee jerk" measures which have caused further rifts, like if you have someone from a lower caste managing an agricultural land for a upper caste person for more than(If I remember correctly) 3 consecutive years the person of lower caste ends up owning up the land. Again there are measures in education which have ended up lowering the standards of education.

But then nobody knows what would certainly work to eradicate this problem, You need legislators who care to fix the issue to be elected to the office. Unfortunately the caring educated elite just finds it too inconvienient to go out and vote on election day to vote for the right person and for the right reason but they(yours truly included) do find the time to complaining endlessly about the problems. So we end up getting these family politicians elected to office who again have any connections with the rural base. So the cycle continues and will continue